Turbine.



No. 898,257. PATENTED SEPTL8, 1908. 0. A. PARSONS & G. G. STONEY.

TURBINE. APPLICATION TILED MAY 15, 1906.

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No. 898,257. PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1908.

C. A. PARSONS & G. G. STONEY.

TURBINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 15, 1906.

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PATENTED SEPT. 8,1908. 0. A. PARSONS & G. G. STONEY.

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TURBINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 15, 1906.

- rmrT n STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS AND GEORGE GERALD STONEY, or NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE,

ENGLAND; SAID STONEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID PARSONS,

TURBINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES ALGERNON .BARS'QNs and GEORGE GERALD STQNEY, sublowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the methods of constructing baffling devices and securing them to the members which carry them.

The baffling devices employed in the balancing pistons, blading, glands or other parts of turbines and the like rotary machines, such as turboumps and compressors, usually consist o str1 s or shrouds of brass, steel or other suitab e metal formed with straight edges, i. 0., continuous edges, in close proximity to the o posing member of the turbine. 'Those ba ing stri s have generally been secured in position lgy calking the metal of the revolving or fixed carrying member so as to cause it to grip the strips. It has been found that, in consequence of the narrow clearance required between the projecting strip and the opposing member of the turbine, any grit or chi s of metal passing through the turbine Wit the steam are apt to injure the edges of the strips, turning them over to a mushroom form and in some cases damaging them to such an extent as to necessitate renewal. This effect becomes most serious in the baffles farther removed from the steam side of the turbine. It has been found that when the strips are secured as above described and require to be renewed, the metal of the carrying member, especially if it be of cast iron, becomes so damaged in taking out the old Strips and putting in new ones as to render fastening of the new strips difiicult and somewhat insecure.

The object of this invention is to providea strip which shall be more durable and readily and firmly secured in position without the risk of damaging the metal which carries it. The invention consists in forming thebaffle surface or surfaces with one or more nicks or passages of sufficient size to allow small grit or chips to pass freely through the baffle packing by way of these nicks.

The strips may be either in the stationary or revolving member or both and the nicks or passa es ma be formed in any convenient part of t e ba e surfaces, '11. e. in the edge or side of the strip or in the side and edge or in the edge of one and the side of another strip or in t e-surface of either the rotary or fixed member or both of them opposite the edge of the strips. It is found that the small nicks or assages in the bafliing portion of the pac 'ng allow grit or chips to pass through without injuring the edge of the strips while they make an inappreciable difference to the passage of the steam between the opposing members of the turbine. Such nicks or assages ma be used in the ackin s of alancing pistons, glands an in t e blade shrouds or other bafliing parts of turbines or of turbo-compressors for water, gas or other fluid.

The invention also consists in forming a baflie strip or set of strips with a ledge or ledges near the root and securing the strip in the groove of the carrying member by calking the said ledge or ledges so as to swell the metal and thereby cause it to grip tightly in the groove.

In the accompanying drawings which represent various arrangements of baffle packing, constructions of baffles and methods of securing bafiie strips to the carrying members, Figures 1 and 1*, show an arrangement of baffles in which nicks or assages are formed in the projecting edges of the baffles. Fig. 2 represents a modified form of baflle device, the left hand ortion showing nicks cut in the edge of the baffles and the right hand portion showin the nicks or passages cut in the surface of t e fixed and rotating members. Figs. 3 and 3 show forms of packing in which baffling is effected by the sides of adjacent baflle rings and nicks or passages are formed in the side of one of the baffle rings. Fig. 4 shows a somewhat modified form of packing device in which the nicks or passages are formed in adjacent sides of both rings. Figs. 5, 6 and 6, show modified constructions of baflle devices in which baflling is effected both by adjacent sides and the edges of the baflle rings and nicks are cut in a side of one ring of a pair and in the edges of both rings. Figs. 7 to 12 and 2, 2*, 2, show various constructions of strip and methods of securing them to the carrying member.

In carryin out the invention as illustrated in Figs. 1 an 1*, the projecting edges, a and b, of the baflies, c and (1, carried respectlvely by the rotary and fixed fportions, e and f, of the turbine, are used or bafiling, and in these edges are formed nicks or-passages, g, 9, see Fig. 1, whereby particles of grit, metal or the like carried along with the fluid are enabled to pass through the packing wlthout damaging the rings. The rings in the rotary member of the turbine are preferably made of rolled, drawn or otherwise glioduced metal strips and are formed with a t 'ckened root portion, It, so as to present a ledge e. The rings, (1, on the other member may be formed in one therewith as shown in Flg. 1 or of separate strips fastened in similar to c, as shown in Fig. 2. In the left hand side of this figure the passages are shown cut in the edges of the strip, but the same eifect is obtained by cuttin them in the surfaces of the fixed and rotating members opposite the ed es of the strip as shown at t and u in the rig t hand side of Fig. 2. In some cases nicks or passages may be provided in the surface of one member as shown in the right of Fig. 2, and in the edges of the strips or rings carried by that member. When the strips are inserted in the narrow groove in the turbine member the ledge, i, comes about flush with the face of the metal of the carrier, the ledges being of sufficient width to enable the application to them of a calking tool whereby the metal of the strip is swelled into the groove. By this method of fixing the strips the usual damage to the metal of the carrier is avoided. Instead of forming the edge baffles with a single ledge as shown in Fig. 1 they may be formed with a double ledge, 41, as shown in Fig. 2

The grooves in which the strips are secured may be serrated as shown at m on the left of Fig. 2 or dovetailed as shown at y, on the left of Fig. 2. In accordance with another construction the strip may be held in osition in the groove by means of a ca king strip, is, on one side (see Figs. 2 and 2) wit or without the aid of a ledge on the other side of the baflie strip. When used with a ledge the calking strip and the ledge ma both be calked.

l istead of using the edges of the strips or rings for bafliing as above described, the sides alone may be used as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 7 or the sides in combination with the edges as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The

bafliing rings, (1, in the member, f, may be made in one with that member as shown in Fig. 3 or in the form of stri s secured in grooves as shown in Fig. 4. T e strips may e rolled, drawn or otherwise formed with a groove or recess, 8, on one side so as to form a calking ledge, 'i, on one side, as shown in Figs. 3, 4 or 7 or they may be formed with such grooves on both sides forming double calking ledges as shown in Fig. 11 or with a groove one side and a ledge on both sides as shown in Figs. 8 and 12 or with lane sides as shown in Figs. 9 and 10, a ca ing ledge being provided on one and both sides respectively.

Nicks or assages, g, may be formed in the rings, a or d or in both. In Fi s. 3 and 3, the nicks, g, are shown in the si e of 0, only but in Fig. 4 they are shown in the sides of both the rings, 0 and d. In Fi s. 5 and 6 the rings are arranged for both ra ial and lateral baffling, but in Fig. 5 the rings, d, are formed in one with the opposing member, while in Fig. 6 they are formed with le gesand calked into the grooves. The adjacent sides of the rings of each pair of rings, (1 and c, are recessed so as to leave somewhat narrow side baffiing' surfaces, p, and the outer portions are tapered towards the bafliing edges, 0 and b which come into close proximity tothe opposin members, f and e, the sides 1) and g, of eac pair of rings likewise coming close together. In this manner the ed es and adjacent sides of a pair of rings are utfiized. Nicks or passa es are formed in the bathing edges and in the side or sides of one or both rings of a pair for the purpose already explained. In some cases where side baffling surfaces are used in combination with edge bafliing, the nicks or passages may be formed in one or both side surfaces and in the bafiiing surfaces of either the fixed or rotating turbine member or both opposite the edges of the rings. The nicks are preferably formed on the surface of greatest radius.

assages may beformed in constructions of hafiie rin other than those herein described and in ct er places as for instance in blade shrouds, or the base rings against which shroud rings bear for the purpose of steam packing.

Having now described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In turbo-machinery, a

part thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In turbo-machinery, a rotary baffle packing device having openings in baffle parts thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In turbo machinery, a rotary-baffle packing device having openings in baffling parts of fixed and rotatlng parts, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In turbo-machinery, a rotary baffle packing device, having an opening in a baffle part thereof and a ledged strip, substantially as and for the purposes described.

5. In turbo-machinery, a rotary bafi'le packing device, having 0 enings in bafiie portions thereof and ca king ledges on It will be understood that these rotary baflie' packing device having an opening in a baflile strips thereof, substantially as and for the substantially .as and forthe purposes purposes described. 4 described. 1

6. In turbo-machinery, a rotary baffle In testimony whereof we have signed our packing device having openings in bafiling names to this specification in the presence of 1| 5 parts of ililxedl 132d fogating 1gmembersl and two subscribing witnesses. stri s wit ca e es su stantia as v andpfor the purposfs desgribei I CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS.

7. In turbo-machinery, a rotary baflfle GEORGE GERALD STONEY' packing device having openings in bafllin Witnessesi 10 parts of fixed and rotating members and HENRY GRAHAM DAKYNs, Jn.,

strips having a oalking ledge on one side, WILLIAM MENZLEs JOHNSTON. 

